How to find food

Beer gardens

You can bring your own food to a beer garden in Munich as long as you order drinks. Germany has the cheapest grocery stores in western Europe, and even discount stores like Lidl, Penny, or Aldi sell good bread, meat, and cheese. Bring your picnic to the huge, 8,000-seat Hirschgarten, go further down the river to Zum Flacher, go a bit fancier at Hofbraukeller at Wiener Platz, or hang out with the cool kids at Waldwirtschaft Grosshesselohe.

Restaurants in Turkey

The food in Turkey is fresh, tasty, and cheap. A doner is made of thin slices of lamb, beef, or chicken from a big roast that are wrapped in a pita with tomatoes, cucumbers, and tzatziki. Every corner in the town center will have a place to get a doner. If you’d rather sit down, try Anatolia’s by the English Garden, Myra in the gay quarter, Dilan on Herzogstrasse, or Pardis in Neuhausen.

How to act

See an opera

The Bayerischer Staatsoper is a world-famous opera house where world-class singers perform almost every night from October to June. You don’t have to get dressed up, but you can if you want to. If you’re patient and have strong legs, you can see a show for as little as €30. Bring any student or military ID you have with you and ask at the box office as soon as you wake up.

Move around

The center of Munich is small and easy to walk around, so if you’d rather spend that money on beer, you don’t have to take the street car or Ubahn. Take the Ubahn to a random station, get off, and walk around the neighborhood for a cheap adventure. In residential areas, there are all kinds of interesting things waiting to be found.

Take a swim

The Müller’sches Volksbad has been a public pool since it opened in 1901. It is a beautiful Art Nouveau building on the banks of the Isar. Inside, you can relax your tired muscles in a Roman steam bath or a Finnish sauna. There are also quiet rooms where you can lie down and sleep or read. The cost to get in is only €4.40, and you don’t need a bathing suit because Germans go to saunas without them.

Find the city’s cheapest beer

At Bratwurst Glockl am Dom, you can get beer so cheap that it’s almost free. The hard part is to find it. Don’t go into the main restaurant. Instead, walk around the left side of the building into an alley and go through a small door. Pull the rope next to the frosted glass window and wait for someone to yell “Yaw wos?” (Good night, how can I help?) and pick out a beer from the list.

Go to the Botanical Gardens to hang out

Palaces and art galleries are great, but sometimes it’s nice to just enjoy nature. In the middle of the city, the Botanical Gardens in Munich cover 50 acres and have greenhouses, trees, flowers, and robots that cut the grass. There is also a café if you need a good piece of German cake to keep you going.

Budget-friendly tips

Lunch should be your main meal

In Munich, as in most cities, big restaurants often have a reduced-price lunch menu, with a prix fixe option usually being the best deal. Even if you’re on a tight budget, it’s nice to spend a little more on hot food that comes with a tablecloth and silverware. All restaurants have menus posted outside so you can see the prices before you go in.

Stay in the center or close to it

It might be tempting to stay outside of the city in a place that costs less per night, but be careful when you do the math. Fares to the outer zones can cost up to €11.40 each way, which means that just getting into town can cost each person an extra €25 per day. Most of the attractions in the center are close enough to each other that you can walk between them, and there are also a lot of cheap places to stay in this area.

Spend all the money

You can’t stay at the Mandarin every night or eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant twice a day, but that doesn’t mean you have to spend all your time in town in an 18-bed dorm or eat questionable pork products from Kaufland. Decide what kind of experience is most important to you—a luxurious bath, a meal that makes you want to write home right away, or a night at the opera, ballet, or theater—and set aside some money in your budget to make it happen. You won’t regret it.

Topic: Munich Budget: A Traveler’s Guide to Munich

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